Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema: Spectres of the City
Gareth Millington
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 152 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 11 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPR; 3JM; APFA; JFD; JFFN; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
This book examines a cycle of films about migration made in the late 1990s and 2000s. It argues that these films present a novel (and radical) aesthetic of planetary urbanization based upon the mobility of the migrant and the dissolution of the city. A stimulating cinematic analysis of our expanding urban fabric, it offers an alternative to the ‘cultural cityism’ of many other films about migration. The author demonstrates that this particular film cycle offers a rare, sustained consideration of the travails and struggles for urban life by migrants beyond and without the city. Yet the city haunts these films ... Read more
This book examines a cycle of films about migration made in the late 1990s and 2000s. It argues that these films present a novel (and radical) aesthetic of planetary urbanization based upon the mobility of the migrant and the dissolution of the city. A stimulating cinematic analysis of our expanding urban fabric, it offers an alternative to the ‘cultural cityism’ of many other films about migration. The author demonstrates that this particular film cycle offers a rare, sustained consideration of the travails and struggles for urban life by migrants beyond and without the city. Yet the city haunts these films ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137473981
SKU
V9781137473981
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99-15
About Gareth Millington
Gareth Millington is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK.
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